Good news for everyone who has been slightly underwhelmed by the recently overhauled iWork apps – Apple has released a list of features that it will be re-introducing to Pages, Numbers and Keynote over the coming months, covering many of the old favourites that have been dropped from the previous iWork ’09 suite.

We can expect to see:

Pages

Customise toolbar

Vertical ruler

Improved alignment guides

Improved object placement

Import of cells with images

Improved word counts

Keyboard shortcuts for styles

Manage pages and sections from the thumbnail view

Numbers

Customise toolbar

Improvements to zoom and window placement

Multi-column and range support

Auto-complete text in cells

Page headers and footers

Improvements to AppleScript support

Keynote

Customise toolbar

Restoring old transitions and builds

Improvements to presenter display

Improvements to AppleScript support

In the meantime, Apple says that you can access these features by using the previous versions of the iWork apps, which should still be installed on your Mac in Applications>iWork ’09 if you’ve updated to the newer ones.

If you want to take an existing document back into iWork ’09, then you’ll need to hit File>Revert To (if you haven’t edited the document since updating Pages, Numbers and Keynote) or File>Export To (if you’ve created it using one of the new apps).